[mpisgmedia] Pushta 2006

Insure slum dwellers: BJP

... Delhi Bharatiya Janata Party president Harsh Vardhan has demanded
immediate rehabilitation of those displaced and adequate compensation for
the next of kin of the three killed and others injured in the Yamuna
Pushta fire at Geeta Colony on Wednesday. He also demanded that the Delhi
Government get all slum dwellers of the Capital insured free of cost...
Recalling how following a major fire in Yamuna Pushta near the Old Yamuna
Bridge about six years ago Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit had constituted a
committee under the leadership of Finance Minister A.K. Walia to suggest
measures for preventing such incidents of fire and also to suggest ways
and means for disaster management, he said no one knows what the panel had
suggested...

http://www.hindu.com/2006/01/27/stories/2006012712820400.htm


(anyone saw any news reports about the demolition proposed next week on
the other bank? from what I heard, it seems all our political majors have
called the people over and gone tut-tut).



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